Korolenko, Vladimir - Pis'Ma K Lunacharskomu [Limited Edition of 600 Copies]

Milan: Edizioni dello Scorpione, 1977. Softcover. Limited edition of 600 copies, this copy #209; 5 1/2 x 8; pp. 1-64; printed yellow wraps; minor wear along edges; near fine. First published in "Sovremennye Zapiski" in Paris in 1922, the book contains six letters, written between July 11 and Sept. 22, 1920, from Vladimir Korolenko to Anatoly Lunacharsky. Korolenko (July 27, 1853 – December 25, 1921) was a Ukrainian author and Human Rights activist. A staunch opponent of Czarism - he was arrested for revolutionary activities and sent into exile in Siberia. Though, initially, Korolenko welcomed the Revolution, he was one of the first to realize the despotism of the new regime and to begin openly criticizing the Bolsheviks. Anatoly Lunacharsky was a Marxist revolutionary and the first People's Commissar of Enlightenment after the October Revolution which put him in charge of culture and education. By 1920, Korolenko's name had become well-known in Russia and abroad and he was visited by Lunacharsky, under Lenin's orders, in an attempt to be persuaded to join the Bolshevik ranks. Lunacharsky encouraged the author to put in writing his grievances with Lenin's practices and promised to publish them with his own commentary. Thus, the 6 letters contained in this book were written, stating that Socialism which allegedly spoke in the name of the Proletariat while it actually disregarded the Proletariat's wishes was neither Revolutionary nor Democratic. Sadly, the letters were never published in Russia, but Korolenko managed, shortly before his death, to send them to be published abroad. Ill.: 0. 2.

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